Third Party Devs have made up their minds about the Wii.

[Demotruk]

Johann said:

So what you're saying is that although the Wii sells the most sofware (1st and 3rd party) and hardware out of the big 3, you still want more support to go to it?

Nintendo get tonnes of support, but it's mostly shovelware. And I'm not talking about the software that core gamers call shovelware but aren't (Carnival Games, Deca Sports, etc.) but the tonnes of games that publishers churn out hoping that customers will be tricked into thinking it's a better game resembling it. The bulk of third party sales on Wii are from the exceptions, the games that don't treat their customers like idiots.

 

Unfortunately those games are limited in scope, publishers don't believe they can have a hit Wii game outside of certain genres, so they don't put money behind them outside of the occassional low budget, "experimental" games like Dead Space Extraction. These are often left to die. Smaller publishers do support Wii with core games, but they're often either just bad, or very narrow in appeal.

 

Considering how many core games have proven to sell on Wii, and I will list Nintendo games as there's nothing magical about Nintendo, (Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros, NSMB, Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda, Star Wars:TFU, Resident Evil, even weak Call of Duty ports), there is no excuse for not supporting the Wii with strong core efforts. "We can't compete with Nintendo first party" translates to "we're not able to make great games". "Wii doesn't sell core games" is plainly false.